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St. Albans Judo Club
St. Albans Judo Club7 days ago
Something for the Seniors, being held at our Dojo...
Saturday 10th Oct, an afternoon training session for Veterans (o30s)
Sunday 11th Oct, a Ne-waza (groundwork only) competition for o16s.
More details in the attached post.
St. Albans Judo Club
St. Albans Judo Club4 weeks ago
This past weekend saw Sensei Jad, along with Samuel, Marcin, Bill & Jacob (& Daniel) head up to Warwickshire in order to deliver 13 judo tasters to a range of ages at the Festival of Sport.
From the initial ad-hoc enquiries on Friday afternoon thru the formal sessions of Saturday & Sunday we worked with almost 200 children & introduced them to some judo basics. With each group we covered a few fun animal moves, Ukemi, a Throw & a Hold, and even had time to play a quick game.
It was tiring, exceptionally hot (full sun all weekend)l & continuous hard work - Yet it was an AMAZING weekend, and we were absolutely delighted to have been asked to lead the sessions.
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St. Albans Judo Club
St. Albans Judo Club1 month ago
Well done to the small squad of club members who took part in the Shizentai Kata competition today, a great opportunity to demonstrate the hard work everyone's been doing.

πŸ₯‡ Stratty & Alex - Senior Nage-no-kata
πŸ₯‡John & Richard - Senior Itsutsu-no-kata
πŸ₯‡Finn & Emily - Junior Nage-no-kata
πŸ₯‰Emily & Finn - Junior Katame-no-kata

Also, well done to club member Patrick & his partner who were competing under Shizentai, who took Gold in the Junior Katame-no-kata

As always we've come away with more to work on as we prepare for the next event, but excellent efforts from everyone with improvements shining through for all pairs. πŸ‘
St. Albans Judo Club
St. Albans Judo Club1 month ago
On Sunday a large squad headed to Hatfield for the Shizentai Rumble.
Always an excellently run event & this year was no different, huge thanks to Shizentai Judo Club, and all the officials & supporters who helped make the event a great success.

We finished up with 41 competitors on the day, from the tiniest of our 5 year old dragons, through to a couple of our "slightly" older adults πŸ˜ƒ

Everyone fought hard, and showed excellent determination and spirit. For several people this was their very first event, or their first in a new age band - really pleased to see how well people are progressing at all ages. πŸ‘

(Participation)πŸ… - Caelan & Anna - Excellent performances, but in larger groups meant unfortunately no placing today for these.
(Bronze) πŸ₯‰ - Elsie, Wan Yu, Emma, Marni, Maya, Asher, William S, Zachary, Finn, Sebastian, Jonathan, Thomas, Alexander, Tomas, Alfred, Barrack, Reuben, William B, Eryk, Lawrence, Vitorio, Lena, Isla D, Jaidan
(Sliver) πŸ₯ˆ - Melina, Valerie, Meadow, Bethany, Elisa, Max, Grayson, Daniel, Adam, Theo
(Gold) πŸ₯‡- Emily, Danae, Lorcan, Darius, Elijah

Many thanks as always to my admin team for logging everything, to Steve J for his coaching support through out the morning, and to all the kids & parents for supporting everyone so well, πŸ‘
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A couple of our primaries appear to have escaped the photo call, and we completely missed getting a photo of our over 16s! (Sorry guys!)
St. Albans Judo Club
St. Albans Judo Club1 month ago
Best of luck to everyone entered for the Shizentai Judo Club Rumble today. Looking forward to an exciting day of judo. Very proud of you all for giving it a go. πŸ‘πŸ€
St. Albans Judo Club
St. Albans Judo Club2 months ago
Last Saturday we held our Summer Grading, with almost 80 people being assessed. It was an excellent day with some great demonstrations of judo across all the ages groups, and evidence of a lot of hard work from everyone. Smiling faces, and new belts & tabs all-round.πŸ‘
As always my thanks to the background team that make these events flow so well, and ensure everyone gets the best experience. You are all amazing!
On refreshments & general support we had Liz, Jess & Dione, on the Admin desk we had Elinore & Nikki, and busy on the mat were my amazing coaching team of Steve J, John, Bill, Stratty, Richard, Kim, Ian P, Marcin, Freya & Muhammed.πŸŽ‰